Trellick Tower was originally designed by Austrian architect and follower of Le Corbusier Erno Goldfinger who had built a modernist house next door to Ian Fleming’s Hampstead Georgian townhouse. Enraged beyond belief Fleming called his most memorable and venal villain after the architect of Trellick Tower.

Kubrick along with Roeg are the undisputed masters of modern cinema, although I did enjoy David O Russell’s American Hustle. It’s a style of film making that comfortably makes a classic novel of a two hour film. Nolan’s Batman films come close especially with such comparatively unpromising subject material. Rumour is that this letter from Kubrick…[Read more]

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